Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has offered his own $804 billion jobs plan that calls on the federal government to hire the nations 15 million unemployed Americans for jobs paying roughly $40,000 each, and bail out all the states and cities facing budget crises.

LIke Communist father Jesse Jackson, Sr,, like Communist son, Jesse Jacskon, Jr.!!! About as dumb as any human being can become!!! These two folks are certainly not the sharpest knives in the drawer!!!

And as more people work, they pay taxes, they pay taxes into the 4th quarter, they buy wares, they buy homes, they meet their obligations and our economy begins to work its way out of this protracted recession, he continued. Thats the only way out of this crisis.

And I hope the president begins to continue to exercise extraordinary constitutional means based on the history of Congresses that have been in rebellion in the past.

What a deal! How about you lend me $100 and I give you back $20. What a boon to you-now you're rich.

And it will really boost the economy if I take the remaining $80 and spend it on stuff. Of course, that means that you don't have the $80 to spend on stuff anymore. Oops.

He is not a moron. This is how things work in his world. Jesse Jr's cousin works in the IRS office in Greenville SC (Jesse Sr’s hometown). She comes in everyday and sits in her office and shops on the internet for 8 hrs and leaves. Not one day has she ever done any work of any kind. This information came to me from another IRS employee in that office. This is how these people think things are supposed to be.

I actually LOVE the fact that he has helped demonstrate a few things... aside from his own incompetence at basic economics.

Most people can never wrap their heads around the "hundreds of billions" and "trillions" that the government tosses around... Now they can see that the last Obama stimulus, at $800 billion, did almost nothing. It COULD HAVE handed $40k to 15 million individuals directly. Instead it went to... mostly nothing that affected their lives in any positive way. (It sure helped out plenty of Obama buddies, though... just not 15 million of 'em.)

Saw a segment on one of the network news shows last night. About cities and how they have cut back and how much $$ they have saved. One city cut out adding fluoride in their water and the next shot was an interview with a black mother saying - well if they is going to cut out fluoride then they should be offering us some kind of dental plan. INBELIEVABLE!!!

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posted on 10/15/2011 6:11:30 AM PDT
by MomwithHope
(Wake up America we are at war with militant Islam and progressives - 2 fronts.)

Insane as this plan sounds, it's not any worse than what the government has been doing all along. All of Bernanke's secret bailouts are many multiples greater than $804 billion, and they went to Wall Street and foreign banks, but it was done under the radar so there was no outcry. JJJ's plan is infinitely preferable, and far smaller and more humble, than Bernanke's bailouts. We could have paid off every mortgage and car loan in America with just a fraction of these bailouts (disclaimer: I don't need a bailout).

Trash me if you want, but then you have to defend the biggest ripoffs of the American taxpayer in history.

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posted on 10/15/2011 6:14:09 AM PDT
by Batrachian
(Why does the Department of Education need a SWAT team?)

I think that JJJr's staff may be reading FR! Just the other day, I was posting about just how corrupt and wasteful the government was, spending tens of millions of dollars to create just a few jobs in many of these programs. I postulated that rather than spend the roughly 800 million dollars on porkulus, the government could have just paid 14 million people $50,000 each for the same amount, but the government would never go for that, because when the government is in charge of "redistributing" income, there are always thousands of dollars that need to "grease the wheels" for every dollar that actually gets to where it's supposed to go.

Little did I know that JJJr would take this seriously. So to you, JJJr, I say you should have thought of this on your own, BEFORE that $800 million was wasted. Too late, you can't have it! And calling for Obama to violate the constitution directly violates your congressional oath... Not that oaths or the constitution would ever matter to you, JJJr. The acorn never falls far from the tree, and JJJr learned his corruption for one of the most corrupt race baiting, shakedown artists this country has ever known... His father!

Mark

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posted on 10/15/2011 6:15:24 AM PDT
by MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)

Reminds me of listening to Rush post-Katrina. There was a video filmed from a helicopter of a black man on top of a bridge that was submerged. The part he was on was the only part above water. Rush said something to the effect that this was the result of welfare. You do not know how to take care of yourself. This recipient was used to people taking care of him- welfare, foodstamps, Section 8, Medicaid, etc.,... and expected someone to save him as he was unable think to do it for himself as he never had to before.

I don't know how I would react in a natural disaster. A lot of it is luck. Don't forget, something like 1500 people died in New Orleans because of Katrina, and a lot of those where from heart attacks and other odd things like that, whereas 230,000 people died in the Asian tsunami. Where they all fools and welfare recipients?

My point is that JJJ's plan, which sounds crazy, is small potatoes compared to what the government has already done.

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posted on 10/15/2011 6:39:55 AM PDT
by Batrachian
(Why does the Department of Education need a SWAT team?)

Also, under Ellison’s suggestion, the 800 billion spent would not have been funneled through friends of Obama (You know Unions and fake Green companies, etc.) and this money then would not have come back to him in the form of laundered campaign contributions. So, it would have been better to give people the money directly for those reasons alone.

So the 60 million or so people working for under 40K a year would quit their jobs and then what Jr. genius? I guess that we know what the so called “livable wage” is in his small cranium. All able-bodied people on welfare should have to conduct public service to get any benefits.

It doesn’t get any more Marxist. Having observed that, however, his “plan” is infinitely better than waht they are doing now...taking the 800 billion and dumping it into crony coffers to be used to keep themselvres in power in the next election.

Yes, but if you and I had a week’s warning about a direct hit with the mother of all hurricanes headed for a city below sea level, I know I would have the sense to load up our animals and everything we could carry and skedaddle. Hope you would do the same.

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has offered his own $804 billion jobs plan that calls on the federal government to hire the nations 15 million unemployed Americans for jobs paying roughly $40,000 each, and bail out all the states and cities facing budget crises.

This guy is really dumb.

The $40,000 should be just dispensable income, and he's forgetting that people also need housing and food and clothing and transportation and entertainment. So, he needs to make sure that people live for free and have no worries at all in their lives.

Since it would be government fake jobs, why not make those salaries even higher? And, while it's all "free" money, why not give them all a free Chevy Volt from Government Motors? And, make them all unionized, where they could all fight to make sure that those $40,000 jobs are for life, and with a guaranteed 5% per year increase? With that kind of incentive, it would be an incentive for all Americans to become unemployed in order to land those cushy government jobs. Who cares if the economy stops producing when everybody becomes a government employee. All that's needed is a printing facility to print money, and, Voila!, everybody lives in Utopia.

And, hey, we would become even more attractive for illegals, and, they could take over the jobs that some Americans would refuse to do for a mere $40,000.

Of course private business people would not be eligible for any of this funding. They are the source, through taxation, of all the money the gov spends. When you consider the impact of these hundreds of billions on a economy of 12 trillion it is less than a drop in a very large bucket. The only way the gov can support its underclass is by nationalizing all industry and corporate business.
Russia went bankrupt over such practices. China is relinquishing its grasp on business. Wherever the scheme has been tried it has failed. Of course we are the biggest and the best. It is bound to work here.

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posted on 10/15/2011 7:43:10 AM PDT
by Louis Foxwell
(Government must be taken back from the thieves who have stolen it.)

Hire them to do what? Would they be required to actually show up in order to get paid? What would the penalty be, for example, if they were chronically absent from work? What if they under-performed? Would there even be performance reviews on a quarterly/annual basis, or would these be no-show or idle-time type “jobs”?

Other posters have already mentioned, some welfare recipients would opt out and keep their current deal, because an income of $40K would be a cut for them. Would there be an option for them to do this, or would the current welfare be replaced by this new hire-every-unemployed-citizen plan?

I’d actually like to hear more from Mr Jackson Jr about his “everybody rides” proposal and vision.

Ideally, he could also have his Dad appear with him, to convert the proposal into catchy rhymes, which would more likely be understood by the potential “hires”.

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posted on 10/15/2011 7:58:16 AM PDT
by NDpapajoe
("Our Country isn't what it once was" -- --Hopey Changerton 8-2008 speaking to a 7-yr-old little girl)

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